[Gllug] Open Source lobbying meeting - UKUUG London Thurs 19th

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Sun Oct 15 15:00:34 UTC 2006


On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 03:47:13PM +0100, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Sun 15 Oct, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> > 
> 
> > 
> > I can recall (vaguely) someone working on a "Sage" clone - I can't remember 
> > where I saw it, though.
> 
>    I have been told that the Unix-compatible version of Sage is aimed at
> large multinational and corporate organisations, and is rather more capable
> and expensive than the standard PC version.
>    Someone from Japan has turned up at the GLLUG stand at Olympia in
> previous years, claiming to be designing a universal accounting package.
> Just plug in the rules for your country, and away you go. Unfortunately, I
> have been told by an accountant that we have guidelines, not hard and fast
> rules.

That is Mr Ho, runs out of somewhere in Uxbridge. He gives away Jalia under the GPL:

	http://jalia.sourceforge.net/

The difficulty of getting Java to work put me off the last time that I tried.
Might be worth reevaluating.

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Alain Williams
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